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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 579 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MISHMI , a

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hill-tribe on the frontier of Eastern

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ASSAM

Assam . The Mishmis occupy the hills from the Dihong to the Brahmakund, in the

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north-eastern corner of the

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BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra valley . In 1854 M . Krick and M . Bourry, two

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French missionaries, were murdered in the Mishmi

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, but their

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DEATH

death was avenged by a small expedition which took the murderer prisoner . In 1899 another

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BRITISH

British expedition was sent against the Mishmis, owing to the

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MURDER

murder of some British subjects .

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